Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

The campus located within Fort Detrick U.S. Army Installation in Frederick, Maryland, also houses National Cancer Institute laboratories and administrative organizations, and is colloquially referred to as NCI-Frederick.

[3][4] As part of the 1971 War on Cancer initiative, Richard Nixon requested that the United States Army transfer land and buildings which were then part of Fort Detrick to the Department of Health and Human Services in order to support the research efforts of the National Cancer Institute.

[3][4] (HHS has since also established the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare in cooperation with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

FNLCR contains two pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities to support clinical trials run by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; manages a large collection of research samples, biological specimens, and mouse models used in cancer research; and hosts specific research projects such as the RAS Initiative, aimed at studying the biology of common oncogenes in the Ras subfamily, and the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory.

[8] In 2015 the NCI began seeking applications for a new contract expected to be awarded in January 2017;[8] however, this search was suspended in September 2016.